U. M. ROSE, ARKANSAS.

(1834

Born in Marion County, Kentucky, March 5, 1834. Read law with R. A. Rountree at Lebanon, Kentucky, and Transylvania Law School. Graduated in 1853, and came to Batesville, Arkansas, where he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1860 he was appointed State Chancellor, and held that office throughout the war. In 1866 he moved to Little Rock, where he has since lived, and where he has been for years the undisputed head of the bar. Takes interest in politics, and is a member of the National Democratic committee, but has not accepted any of fice. In the selection of an Attorney General in 1893, Mr. Cleveland long wavered between him and Mr. Olney. In person he is tall, slender, and erect, with piercing dark gray eyes, and chestnut hair now turning white. He is conspicuous as a scholar, having accumulated, besides his large law library, over six thousand volumes of literary works in many languages. His writings, his speeches at the bar, and public orations, are marked by dignity and finished

elegance, and are peculiar for the wealth of illustration which his wide range of legal and literary studies enables him to bring to bear; a singular capacity for polished ridicule, and occasionally a passionate energy. In his studies he has passed beyond the bounds of the common law, and has devoted much time to the science of jurisprudence, which his knowledge of foreign languages enables him to prosecute to peculiar advantage. His papers on the "Controversies of Modern Continental Jurists," which appeared some years ago in the Southern Law Review, give some idea of the extent of his investigations in this line. In the practice, he belongs to the old school, who permit not the slightest deviation from the strictest ethics of the profession; but in the law itself, he is an advanced reformer, and many of the most liberal and enlightened of the State's statutes owe their existence to him. He is fond of travel, and has wandered from Moscow to Honolulu. He speaks German and French fluently, and was said by Jeremiah S. Black to be the most scholarly lawyer in America.

CHARLES ARTHUR RUSSELL, ENGLAND.

(1833

Queen's Counsel, Member of Parliament. One of the greatest living English advocates, and lately made Lord Chief Justice of England, in place of Lord Coleridge, deceased. Born at Newery, Ireland, in 1833. Educated at Castleknock school and Trinity College, Dublin. He began practice in Belfast, but soon removed to London, where his task was difficult and his anxieties many. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 1856, and called to the bar, 1859; became Queen's Counsel,1872. Attorney General during each of Mr. Gladstone's last two administrations. From 1880 to 1885 he was a member of Parliament for Dundal. Since 1886 he has been almost continuously a member of the House of Commons for South Hackney. He was leading counsel for England in the late Behring Sea case at Paris. The official Law Reports for the last twenty years have contained scarcely an important cause in which he is not briefed, on one side or the other, sometimes, as in the Ben d'Or racehorse case, by both. Some of

his great cases were Pearce v. Foster (17 Q. B. D., 536); the Colin-Campbell divorce suit; the Maybrick poisoning case; the Earl Russel divorce suit; the Baccarat trial; his masterly effort before the Parnell Commission; and the Behring Sea case.

There is no branch of the law that he has not made peculiarly his own. Is not a specialist, but has a variety of powers. He would be no match for Sir Horace Davey on a question of settlements, nor for Sir Richard Webster in a patent litigation, nor for Sir Henry James in persuasive rhetoric; yet he possesses the gift of carrying his listeners with him, has a wide general knowledge of law, with the ability to convert it into special knowledge at any point and at any moment. While at the bar he was a master of legal tactics, a cogent reasoner, a skilful jury lawyer, the greatest cross-examiner at the English bar, and the pre-eminent European advocate of modern times. His practice amounted to nearly $150,000 a year. He is tall, strongly built, white-whiskered, chubby-faced, lynx-eyed, and a Catholic in religion, imperious, impetuous and tenacious.

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Success at the Bar.

"There are three perquisites for success at the bar-ready money, good health, and the power to array facts in order of time."-Art. on Huddleston, March, '93, Green Bag.

"Russell is the greatest legal genius of his generation," said the late Lord Bowen.

Politics and Law.

"It is difficult for a lawyer in great practice to give that time and close attention and study to political questions without which unqualified success cannot be attained, even by the possessor of considerable natural gifts. Coke said, 'Lady Common Law brooketh no bed-fellow;' and so it may be said that to Lady Politics almost exclusive court must be paid." -From article on Lord Coleridge, Sep., 1894, N. A. Review, by Lord Russell.

Lord Coleridge.

"His judicial career is too recent and too well known to justify me in dwelling upon it at any length. He is undoubtedly entitled to be described as a strong judge; and when the case was sufficiently important to prompt him to take pains, his judgments showed a broad, masterful grasp of the principles of the law elucidated. I do not think he possessed the great synthetical and analytical powers of Sir Alexander